Betty Robinson, born in Riverdale Illinois. In 1928, she had been officially registered to play for the Olympics in Amsterdam. This year was significant, because this was the first time where they have made women's track available. Her first official race occurred on March 30, 1928 and she was 16 at that time. Her Amsterdam Olympics was her 3rd game in which she also competed in her 3rd 100 meter race , she had won and then from there she went to go on the world record. In her record, she was the one to win a silver record. In 1931, Betty got into a plane crash. She didn't want to walk at all after the crash due to her high end injuries, but she still has survived. After a while, she was slowly recovering and started walking, and then she started doing short runs. Betty was one who had won her first gold to have been won and was given back to the team. Betty had another shot to be in the Olympics, this game happened around Berlin in 1936. This time around, her medical bills were supposed to be covered around that time and since then , the great depression was still around and her dad lost his job in the bank, and she sold mostly everything to be able to play in the game in Berlin. She had most of her medals and worked as a secretary to save up. All of it has worked out and she was able to save up and was able to make it to the main play off's.